First bitcoin block

Viabtc and Kraken at the moment. The client accepts the 'longest' chain of blocks as valid. Many traders believe the BTC price spike is currently valued with the BCC tokens value priced into it, but market predictions are very speculative. The network comes to a consensus and automatically increases (or decreases) the difficulty of generating blocks. The first Bitcoin ABC (Bitcoin Cash) block was mined on August 1 at approximately 12:37.m. More m miners are expected to come on stream in the coming weeks. Today a whole lot of people have been patiently waiting for the user-activated hard fork (uahf) to commence and the coming of the new digital currency Bitcoin Cash. The start of the Bitcoin ABC/Bitcoin Cash fork took place at block height 478558 according to BTC Fork Monitor. It's like trying to flip 53 coins at once and have them all come up heads.

Transactions will still occur once all the coins have been generated, so blocks will still be created as long as people are trading Bitcoins. The start of the BCC chain split began at block 478558, but at the time of writing the official divide has not yet occurred. An early and vocal advocate of Bitcoin BCH, Ayre invested significantly in both hardware and software in order to build the hash rate of BCH and highlight the all-important scalability of the chain. And of course, the Reddit forums r/btc, r/bitcoin, and Twitter are filled with discussions concerning todays events. They can be thought of as the individual pages of a city recorder's recordbook (where changes to title to real estate are recorded) or a stock transaction ledger.